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Another one bites the dust - Columbia BG, multiple auctions

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I noticed that last week, and also noticed several other nice machines that will horrify me when they ultimately end up dismembered. :evil:

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This person has done this for the last couple years. I hate to see an original rare machine done this way. It's like seperating children from one family and sending them to the four corners of the earth. But lately it seems like this is happening more and more on ebay than it used to be. So sad.

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It is sad. I think this dealer parted out an Amberola 1A ( or B) not too long ago.

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I wouldn't doubt that he would dissect and part out a tin foil.

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He has 100% good feedback though :roll:

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briankeith wrote:He has 100% good feedback though :roll:
He only got $667 for both pieces. A steal really. So much for getting rich by parting things out. Of course he probably got another hundred each for the reproducer and the crank.

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Because the economy is supposedly so bad and values have plummeted, to make money with phonographs, sometimes the parts are certainly worth more than the machine whole, an Edison standard B is probably worth 600.00+ in parts while only going for 300.00-500.00 whole. Any case it is still wrong, and We need to restore, not dis assemble machines. I would like to know why someone took the mandrel and lower bed plate off of my Columbia AG Grand? I suppose since the carriage looked unfixable, which Jean Paul Agnard is working on, that someone said oh well parts machine. I hope to get it back going for using it as a recording machine on which to record new concert/grand records. Almost all of my machines were saved from being parts machines, and they work beautifully. I still though need for the AG a mandrel, pulley and drive gear, lower bed plate, reproducer, crank, and speed adjustment knob.

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